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An op-ed in Today's New York Times might be of interest to this list
- a different type of multi-stakeholderism.<a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/opinion/a-confucian-constitution-in-china.html?ref=opinion"></a><br>
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It starts as follows:<br>
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version="1.0" type=" ">A Confucian Constitution for China</nyt_headline></h1>
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itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">JIANG
QING</span></span> and <span itemprop="creator"
itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span
itemprop="name">DANIEL A. BELL</span></span></h6>
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ON Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave <a
title="Clinton Mongolia speech"
href="http://m.state.gov/md194696.htm">a speech in Mongolia
</a>denouncing Asian governments that seek “to restrict
people’s access to ideas and information, to imprison them for
expressing their views, to usurp the rights of citizens to
choose their leaders.” It was a swipe at <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/china/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"
title="More news and information about China."
class="meta-loc">China</a>’s authoritarian political system.
The view that China should become more democratic is widely
held in the West. But framing the debate in terms of democracy
versus authoritarianism overlooks better possibilities.<br>
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<p class="summary">For Op-Ed, follow <a
href="https://twitter.com/#%21/nytopinion">@nytopinion</a>
and to hear from the editorial page
editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow <a
href="https://twitter.com/#%21/andyrNYT">@andyrNYT</a>.</p>
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The political future of China is far likelier to be determined by
the longstanding Confucian tradition of “humane authority” than by
Western-style multiparty elections. After all, democracy is flawed
as an ideal. Political legitimacy is based solely on the
sovereignty of the people — more specifically, a government that
grants power to democratically elected representatives. But there
is no compelling reason for a government to have only one source
of legitimacy.<br>
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<p itemprop="articleBody">and finishes here - <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/opinion/a-confucian-constitution-in-china.html?ref=opinion">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/opinion/a-confucian-constitution-in-china.html?ref=opinion.</a><br>
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<p itemprop="articleBody">Tom<br>
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